Inner Crown of Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the 'child' as the awakening state of awareness within you that has just been formed in your mind. The 'government' resting on his shoulder is the ruling order of your inner life—how you believe, imagine, and respond. The names are not external titles but faculties of your own consciousness: Wonderful denotes a perception that transcends ordinary thought; Counsellor is the inner guidance that speaks when you are still; The Mighty God is the power of imagination and the I AM you inhabit; The Everlasting Father is the enduring source of your sense of self; The Prince of Peace is the harmony that flows when this government governs from within. When you dwell in that state, you no longer react from fear, but from quiet, confident imagination. The world becomes a mirror of your inner governance, and peace becomes your normal condition. The verse invites you to inhabit this state as real now, not as a distant promise. You do not seek change outside; you assume the inner government and let the outer come into alignment with it.